Long term cause of taxation without representation?

The cause of taxation without representation are taxes were levied by a government that is not elected by a vote of the population.

This was caused by the want of the colonists to have representatives for them sitting in London. This was their way of saying to Parliment "We run our own affairs now."

The British were taxing the Americans without them OKing it so taxation means taxing and representation means agreement

Before the American Revolution the colonists were being taxed for every commodity because Britain had to ship them over. The colonists became enraged because they had to pay these taxes but had no...

Since the Colonist didn't like to be taxed by someone who wasn't there, they chose not to pay there taxes. The King of England got mad and sent some soldiers over to America to pay their taxes. One...